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Tan Twan Eng wins Man Asian prizehttps://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/mar/14/tan-twan-eng-man-asian-prize
Malaysian novelist impresses judges with tale about memory and forgetting set in the shadow of the second world war<p>The Malaysian novelist <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/tan-twan-eng" title="">Tan Twan Eng</a> has won the <a href="http://www.manasianliteraryprize.org/" title="">2012 Man Asian prize</a> with his novel, The Garden of Evening Mists.</p><p><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/aug/24/garden-evening-mists-tan-twan-eng-review" title="">His novel</a>, which was shortlisted for last year's Booker prize, was hailed by the chair of judges Maya Jaggi for its "stylistic poise and probing intelligence".</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/mar/14/tan-twan-eng-man-asian-prize">Continue reading...</a>Man Asian literary prizeTan Twan EngCultureBooksFictionAwards and prizesMalaysiaThu, 14 Mar 2013 15:41:55 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/mar/14/tan-twan-eng-man-asian-prizePhotograph: Vincent Yu/APMalaysian author Tan Twan Eng poses with the 2012 Man Asian literary prize. Photograph: Vincent Yu/APPhotograph: Vincent Yu/APMalaysian author Tan Twan Eng poses with the 2012 Man Asian literary prize. Photograph: Vincent Yu/APRichard Lea2013-03-14T15:41:55ZMan Asian literary prize shortlist stages Booker re-matchhttps://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/jan/09/man-asian-literary-prize-shortlist
Jeet Thayil and Tan Twan Eng, shortlisted for last year's Booker prize, are up against each other again on the shortlist for Asian literature award<p>Jeet Thayil and Tan Twan Eng, who last clashed on the shortlist for the Man Booker prize, are going head to head again after both authors made the final cut for the Man Asian literary prize.</p><p>Worth $30,000 (£19,00), the award goes to the best novel by an Asian writer, either written in English or translated into English. Indian poet Thayil is shortlisted for <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/data/book/fiction/9780571275762/narcopolis" title="">Narcopolis</a>, set in the opium dens of old Bombay, and Malaysian author Eng for <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/data/book/fiction/9781905802494/the-garden-of-evening-mists" title="">The Garden of Evening Mists</a>, which takes place during the aftermath of the Japanese occupation of Malaya.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/jan/09/man-asian-literary-prize-shortlist">Continue reading...</a>Man Asian literary prizeAwards and prizesBooksFictionCultureJeet ThayilTan Twan EngWed, 09 Jan 2013 12:56:12 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/jan/09/man-asian-literary-prize-shortlistPhotograph: PR/Murdo MacleodBooker again ... Tan Twan Eng and Jeet Thayil Photograph: PR/Murdo MacleodPhotograph: PR/Murdo MacleodBooker again ... Tan Twan Eng and Jeet Thayil Photograph: PR/Murdo MacleodAlison Flood2013-01-09T12:56:12ZMan Asian literary prize loses sponsorshiphttps://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/oct/18/man-asian-literary-prize-loses-sponsorship
Booker sponsor says it remains totally committed to Booker, but is withdrawing from Asian prize to trim its costs<p>Two days after <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/oct/16/hilary-mantel-wins-booker-prize" title="">Hilary Mantel won her second Man Booker award</a> for Bring Up the Bodies, the <a href="http://www.mangroupplc.com/index.jsf" title="">Man Group</a> has announced that it will no longer be sponsoring another prestigious literary gong in its stable, the <a href="http://www.manasianliteraryprize.org/" title="">Man Asian literary prize</a>.</p><p>Man has sponsored the $30,000 award – won in the past by Chinese author Su Tong, Filipino writer Miguel Syjuco and South Korean Kyung-sook Shin – since it was set up in 2007. But in a struggling market that has seen the hedge fund manager <a href="http://www.mangroupplc.com/media/news-from-man/2012/press-release-24jul2012.jsf" title="">announce cost savings of $100m this July</a>, Man said in a statement that it has decided to "concentrate our arts sponsorship on the world-leading Man Booker prize, where our support is about to go into its 12th year".</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/oct/18/man-asian-literary-prize-loses-sponsorship">Continue reading...</a>Man Asian literary prizeAwards and prizesBooksCultureArts fundingCorporate sponsorshipThu, 18 Oct 2012 12:13:18 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/oct/18/man-asian-literary-prize-loses-sponsorshipPhotograph: Johnny Gi.Man Asian literary prize ... 2011 winner Kyung-sook Shin receiving her award from Peter Clarke, chief executive of Man Group plc. Photograph: Johnny Gin.Photograph: Johnny Gi.Man Asian literary prize ... 2011 winner Kyung-sook Shin receiving her award from Peter Clarke, chief executive of Man Group plc. Photograph: Johnny Gin.Alison Flood2012-10-18T12:13:18ZSouth Korea's Shin Kyung-sook wins Man Asian literary prizehttps://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/mar/16/shin-kyung-sook-man-asian
Please Look After Mom, which tells story of a woman who goes missing, was chosen above contenders by Murakami and Ghosh<p>Shin Kyung-sook's story of a vulnerable mother who goes missing in Seoul, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/data/book/literary-fiction/9780307359193/please-look-after-mom" title="">Please Look After Mom</a>, has won the bestselling South Korean novelist the Man Asian literary prize.</p><p>Shin, who becomes both the first woman and the first South Korean to take the US$30,000 award, was chosen as winner above better-known contenders including <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/harukimurakami" title="">Haruki Murakami</a>, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/amitav-ghosh" title="">Amitav Ghosh</a>, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/profile/tahmimaanam" title="">Tahmima Anam</a> and Banana Yoshimoto by a panel of judges. BBC correspondent Razia Iqbal, chair of the judges, described Please Look After Mom as "an incredibly moving portrait of what it means to be a mother, but also of the tradition and modernity of the family in South Korea".</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/mar/16/shin-kyung-sook-man-asian">Continue reading...</a>Man Asian literary prizeFictionBooksAwards and prizesCultureSouth KoreaAsia PacificWorld newsFri, 16 Mar 2012 15:35:12 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/mar/16/shin-kyung-sook-man-asianPhotograph: Aaron Tam/AFP/Getty ImagesKorea change … Shin Kyung-sook poses with a copy of Please Look After Mom after collecting the Man Asian literary prize. Photograph: Aaron Tam/AFP/Getty ImagesPhotograph: Aaron Tam/AFP/Getty ImagesKorea change … Shin Kyung-sook poses with a copy of Please Look After Mom after collecting the Man Asian literary prize. Photograph: Aaron Tam/AFP/Getty ImagesAlison Flood2012-03-16T15:35:12ZMan Asian literary prize shortlist 2011 – in pictureshttps://www.theguardian.com/books/gallery/2012/jan/12/man-asian-literary-prize-2011-in-pictures
Inagurated in 2007, the Man Asian prize is open to novels written by Asian writers, written in or translated into English. The 'Asian Booker' is supposed to draw up a shortlist of five or six. This year they've extended that to seven novels contending for the $30,000 prize – from India, Japan, Pakistan and South Korea – to accommodate 'the power and diversity' of writing from this region. The list contains both well-known and unfamiliar writers: get to know them better here <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/gallery/2012/jan/12/man-asian-literary-prize-2011-in-pictures">Continue reading...</a>Man Asian literary prizeBooksCultureFictionAmitav GhoshThu, 12 Jan 2012 10:25:40 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/books/gallery/2012/jan/12/man-asian-literary-prize-2011-in-picturesPhotograph: Maria L Antonelli / Rex FeaturesMan Asian Literary Prize 2011, shortlisted author Banana Yoshimoto
Photograph: Maria L Antonelli / Rex FeaturesPhotograph: Maria L Antonelli / Rex FeaturesMan Asian Literary Prize 2011, shortlisted author Banana Yoshimoto
Photograph: Maria L Antonelli / Rex FeaturesGuardian Staff2012-01-12T10:25:40ZMan Asian literary prize announces longlisthttps://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/nov/02/man-asian-literary-prize-shortlist
Twelve novels from across the Asian region, including Murakami's magnum opus 1Q84, are contending for the $30,000 award<p>The Tolstoys, Hugos and Eliots of today are to be found not in Europe but in Asia, according to the chair of directors of the Man Asian literary prize. Announcing the longlist for this year's $30,000 (£19,000) award for the best novel by an Asian writer, which ranges from Japan to India and Iran to South Korea, Professor David Parker from the Chinese University of Hong Kong said that "if we are looking for books of the epic scale and stature of the great European 19th-century novels, we must turn to Asia".</p><p>Pointing to the Man Asian longlist inclusion of both Haruki Murakami's "massive magnum opus" 1Q84 and Amitav Ghosh's three-volume epic about the opium wars, of which River of Smoke is the second volume, Parker said that Asia is producing novels of "a scale and ambition we don't often see in western writing these days.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/nov/02/man-asian-literary-prize-shortlist">Continue reading...</a>Man Asian literary prizeBooksAwards and prizesCultureWed, 02 Nov 2011 13:21:37 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/nov/02/man-asian-literary-prize-shortlistPhotograph: Sipa Press / Rex FeaturesHaruki Murakami. Photograph: Sipa Press / Rex FeaturesPhotograph: Sipa Press / Rex FeaturesHaruki Murakami. Photograph: Sipa Press / Rex FeaturesAlison Flood2011-11-02T13:21:37ZNobel laureate leads Man Asian prize contendershttps://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/dec/14/man-asian
Kenzaburo Oe's The Changeling is among the 10 books shortlisted for this year's award for the best novel by an Asian writer in English<p>Japanese author <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/feb/05/featuresreviews.guardianreview9" title="">Kenzaburo Oe</a>, who was awarded the Nobel prize for literature in 1994, is the star name among the 10 authors longlisted for this year's <a href="http://www.manasianliteraryprize.org/" title="Man Asian Literary Prize">Man Asian literary prize</a>.</p><p>His novel <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/jun/12/the-changeling-kenzaburo-oe-review?INTCMP=SRCH" title="The Changeling">The Changeling</a>, in which an ageing writer strives to understand what drove his brother-in-law to suicide, joins work by writers from China, India and the Philippines in contention for the award.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/dec/14/man-asian">Continue reading...</a>Man Asian literary prizeAwards and prizesBooksFictionCultureTue, 14 Dec 2010 11:40:15 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/dec/14/man-asianPhotograph: IBL / Rex FeaturesKenzaubro Oe pictured after collecting his Nobel prize.
Photograph: IBL / Rex FeaturesPhotograph: IBL / Rex FeaturesKenzaubro Oe pictured after collecting his Nobel prize.
Photograph: IBL / Rex FeaturesBenedicte Page2010-12-14T11:40:15ZIlustrado by Miguel Syjuco | Book reviewhttps://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/may/29/ilustrado-miguel-syjuco-review
Joseph O'Connor meets a&nbsp;writer already touched by greatness<p>Miguel Syjuco's first novel, a dazzling and virtuosic adventure in reading, won the Man Asian Literary prize while still in manuscript. It opens with the body of Crispin Salvador, a renowned Filipino novelist, found half-naked in New York's Hudson river. A deeply controversial figure in his home country and in several others, Crispin had battalions of eloquent enemies. One critic described his work as "a cistern filled with faeces that has not been well formed . . . the sort of crap that sparks fears of outbreaks of amoebic dysentery". Others, perhaps a little implausibly, promoted him for the Nobel prize, but he lost out to Naguib Mahfouz.</p><p>Mention of his key publications throws light on the reasons for mixed responses. Early works included the milestone essay "It's Hard to Love a Feminist" (1969) and a theological text unlikely to have found favour with many of the church hierarchy: "Why Would a Loving God Make Us Fart?" A confetti-fall of rumours has always swirled around him. He danced naked with Germaine Greer at Yaddo, insulted George Solti, vomited into the chowder at a dinner party hosted by George Plimpton, earned the public disdain of the seafaring novelist Patrick O'Brian, had a shouting match with Imelda Marcos and a love-life that would have wearied Jack Kennedy. It's the kind of apprenticeship to which not many young literary novelists would subject themselves any more, if ever they did. You feel he wouldn't have lasted long on a creative writing workshop.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/may/29/ilustrado-miguel-syjuco-review">Continue reading...</a>FictionBooksCultureMan Asian literary prizeHay festivalFri, 28 May 2010 23:06:21 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/may/29/ilustrado-miguel-syjuco-reviewJoseph O'Connor2010-05-28T23:06:21ZMan Asian literary prize goes to Chinese bestsellerhttps://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/nov/17/man-asian-literary-prize-chinese
Su Tong's political fable The Boat to Redemption takes $10,000 award<p>The story of a playboy Communist party official who castrates himself after he is banished to live on a river barge has won celebrated Chinese author Su Tong the Man Asian literary prize.</p><p>Su, by far the best known of the five shortlisted authors, is the second Chinese writer to win the three-year-old prize, which is worth $10,000 (£6,000). Judges, including the authors Colm Tóibín and Pankaj Mishra, said in a joint statement that his winning title, The Boat to Redemption, was "a picaresque novel of immense charm".</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/nov/17/man-asian-literary-prize-chinese">Continue reading...</a>Man Asian literary prizeAwards and prizesFictionBooksCultureTue, 17 Nov 2009 11:39:14 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/nov/17/man-asian-literary-prize-chinesePhotograph: Mike Clarke/AFP/Getty ImagesSu Tong poses for photos in Hong Kong after winning the Man Asian literary prize. Photograph: Mike Clarke/AFP/Getty ImagesPhotograph: Mike Clarke/AFP/Getty ImagesSu Tong poses for photos in Hong Kong after winning the Man Asian literary prize. Photograph: Mike Clarke/AFP/Getty ImagesAlison Flood2009-11-17T11:39:14ZIndian subcontinent dominates Man Asian literary prize shortlisthttps://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/oct/21/subcontinent-man-asian-literary-prize
Two Indian and one Kashmiri-born novelists compete against Chinese and Filipino authors for $10,000 prize<p>The final for this year's Man Asian literary prize is dominated by writers from the Indian subcontinent. Of the five shortlisted authors, two are Indian and one is Kashmiri-born, with the field completed by one Chinese and one Filipino author contending for the prize, which was conceived "to bring exciting new Asian authors to the attention of the world literary community". It is now into its third year and carries a $10,000 (£6,000) purse.</p><p>Nitasha Kaul is an academic, poet and author who has been shortlisted for her debut novel Residue. She heard about the shortlisting late at night in Thimphu, Bhutan, where she has been speaking at a conference on democracy. </p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/oct/21/subcontinent-man-asian-literary-prize">Continue reading...</a>Man Asian literary prizeFictionAwards and prizesBooksCultureWed, 21 Oct 2009 14:33:56 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/oct/21/subcontinent-man-asian-literary-prizePhotograph: PRNitasha Kaul, shortlisted for the Man Asia literary prizePhotograph: PRNitasha Kaul, shortlisted for the Man Asia literary prizeAlison Flood2009-10-21T14:33:56ZRunning a literary prize in the real worldhttps://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2008/nov/17/man-asian-miguel-syjuco
<p>Well there I was all ready to get in a froth about <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/manasianliteraryprize">the Man Asian literary prize</a>. Quite apart from <a href="http://www.complete-review.com/saloon/archive/200807c.htm#fy7">the Literary Saloon's long-running quibble</a> with exactly how Asian a prize can be when it counts out Turkey, Iran and a whole bunch of other 'stans from Kazakhstan to Turkmenistan, they've gone and given it to <a href="http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/theampersand/archive/2008/11/14/q-amp-a-with-ilustrado-author-miguel-syjuco-winner-of-the-man-asian-literary-prize.aspx">Miguel Syjuco</a>, an English-speaking graduate of creative writing programmes at both Columbia and Adelaide University.</p><p>They are not exactly bringing "<a href="http://www.manasianliteraryprize.org/2008/background.php">exciting new Asian authors</a> to the attention of the world literary community", I grumbled. Not so much facilitating "publishing and translation" of Asian literature, I harrumphed. Just look at this year's shortlist. The judges may be considering unpublished manuscripts, but four out of five of <a href="http://www.manasianliteraryprize.org/2008/2008winner.php">their shortlist</a> were written in English (all but <a href="http://iwp.uiowa.edu/news/index.html">Yu Hua's Brothers</a>), three out of five already have publishing deals with English-language publishers (all but Syjuco and Alfred Yuson) and three out of five have studied on creative writing programmes in the west (all but Yuson and Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi). This comes after <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/nov/22/china.features11">the inaugural prize was awarded to Jiang Rong</a>, a debut novelist who'd already signed a $100,000 deal with Penguin for Wolf Totem.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2008/nov/17/man-asian-miguel-syjuco">Continue reading...</a>Man Asian literary prizeAwards and prizesFictionPublishingMon, 17 Nov 2008 12:29:24 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2008/nov/17/man-asian-miguel-syjucoRichard Lea2008-11-17T12:29:24ZChina in the running for Man Asian prize doublehttps://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/oct/22/man-asian-chinese-writers
<p>The controversial Chinese <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/books/publishing">bestseller</a> Brothers, which has split China's literary establishment, has been shortlisted for the $10,000 Man Asian literary prize.</p><p>If chosen as the winner, author Yu Hua would be the second Chinese citizen to take the prize, following Jiang Rong's clinching of the inaugural trophy last year with Wolf Totem, about the lives of the nomadic people of Mongolia.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/oct/22/man-asian-chinese-writers">Continue reading...</a>BooksFictionMan Asian literary prizeCultureWed, 22 Oct 2008 16:03:54 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/oct/22/man-asian-chinese-writersAlison Flood2008-10-22T16:03:54ZMan Asian longlist strong on Filipino writershttps://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/jul/23/manasianliteraryprize.awardsandprizes
<p>The longlist for the second Man Asian literary prize has been announced, and features an unexpectedly strong showing from Filipino writers.</p><p>The list, which is chosen from submissions received from all over Asia, comprises 21 works of Asian fiction yet to be published in English from both well established and first-time authors. </p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/jul/23/manasianliteraryprize.awardsandprizes">Continue reading...</a>BooksMan Asian literary prizeAwards and prizesCultureWed, 23 Jul 2008 13:30:01 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/jul/23/manasianliteraryprize.awardsandprizesPhotograph: PRPankaj Mishra, one of the Man Asian judgesPhotograph: PRPankaj Mishra, one of the Man Asian judgesJames Wignall2008-07-23T13:30:01ZBurmese author beats censors for place on prize shortlisthttps://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/oct/25/news.awardsandprizes
<p>A Burmese writer, Nu Nu Yi Inwa, is among the authors shortlisted for the inaugural Man Asian literary prize.</p><p>The Rangoon-based author is in the running with Smile As They Bow, a book which was with the Burmese censors for a year before it was permitted to be published, and then translated. Like most of Nu Nu Yi Inwa's novels and short stories, it is set among the rural poor and social outcasts of Burma. It follows the lives of three young people: Daisy James, a gay, transvestite medium, his partner Min Min and a young beggar girl who falls in love with Min Min at the annual festival of spirits held near Mandalay every August. It will be published in English by Hyperion Est in September 2008.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/oct/25/news.awardsandprizes">Continue reading...</a>BooksAwards and prizesMan Asian literary prizeCultureThu, 25 Oct 2007 12:13:56 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/oct/25/news.awardsandprizesMichelle Pauli2007-10-25T12:13:56ZLonglist for Man Asian literary prize announcedhttps://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/jul/24/news.awardsandprizes
<p>Xiaolu Guo, author of the Orange-shortlisted A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers, heads up the longlist for the inaugural Man Asian literary prize with a new novel, 20 Fragments of a Ravenous Youth.</p><p>The Chinese author is one of 23 authors from Asia in the running for the $10,000 prize, which focuses on new works as yet unpublished in English and aims to encourage the publication of more works by Asian writers. The longlist was chosen from 243 submissions received from across Asia and included submissions from well-established as well as first-time authors, and entries included translated works as well as works originally in English.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/jul/24/news.awardsandprizes">Continue reading...</a>BooksAwards and prizesMan Asian literary prizeCultureTue, 24 Jul 2007 14:51:06 GMThttp://www.theguardian.com/books/2007/jul/24/news.awardsandprizesMichelle Pauli2007-07-24T14:51:06Z